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Filter by:The goal of this one-arm pre-test/post-test study is to evaluate the feasibility and preliminary effect of a community-based psychoeducational group intervention for informal caregivers of individuals with mental illness. The main questions it aims to answer are: - What is the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention? - What is the preliminary effect of the intervention? Participants self-select to the intervention and participation in the evaluation is voluntary. Participants will be asked to: - Answer a questionnaire before and after their participation - Some participants will be invited for an in-depth interview There is no comparison group, but feasibility and acceptability will also be explored by asking the implementation team (e.g. project leaders and teachers) to participate in: - In-depth interviews - Answering shorter questionnaires about provider acceptability
The goal of this study is to test the feasibility of a randomized control trial evaluating the educational tool for anticoagulated patients. Participants will be randomized to use new educational materials or current existing educational materials and answer survey questions.
The purpose of this study is to design a nutrition and exercise course for the elderly adults in the community, and to evaluate the effectiveness of this course intervention on the nutritional knowledge, nutritional status, sarcopenia, and health status of the elderly in the community. This study adopted convenience sampling and targeted 108 community elders over 65 years old in Taipei City. All participants receive 3 nutrition and exercise courses. Each course was separated by one week. Measurements and collections were conducted one week before and one week after the course. BMI (body mass index), muscle mass, calf circumference, grip strength, Mini Nutritional Assessment Form Short Form (MNA-SF), SARC-F scale, Taiwan Short Form 36 Health Scale (SF-36) and nutrition knowledge and attitude and behavioral questionnaires will be collected to evaluate the effectiveness of the course.
Aim: The primary objective was to assess the effect of three different teaching techniques on the success of first-time peripheral intravenous cannulation (PVC) insertion as well as the vein prominence of nursing students. As a secondary objective, the authors conducted research on the students' PVC knowledge levels and skills performance, in the PVC procedure and the duration of the procedure, their satisfaction, and self-confidence in learning. Design: A randomized controlled trial with a pretest and posttest was conducted between February and July 2022, with near-infrared light visualization (n=49), isometric exercise (n=50), and each other's arms (n=48) with nursing students in Turkey.
Background and Objective: Tanzania is one of 20 countries where the majority of un- and under-vaccinated children reside. Prior research identified substantial rural-urban disparities in rates and timeliness of childhood vaccination in Tanzania, with children in rural settings being more like to receive delayed or no vaccinations. This type 1 effectiveness implementation hybrid study will evaluate the effect of Chanjo Kwa Wakati ("Timely Vaccination" in Kiswahili), a community-based, integrated digital health intervention, on vaccination timeliness. The intervention combines a vaccination knowledge intervention, mobile phone-based reminders, and incentives with the goal to promote timely childhood vaccinations. Methods: The study will be conducted in two predominantly rural regions in Tanzania with high numbers of un- or under-vaccinated children. Forty rural health facilities and their catchment areas ("clusters") will be randomized to an early or delayed onset study arm. From each cluster, three cohorts of mother-child dyads, one retrospective cohort and two prospective cohorts, will be enrolled into the study. For all vaccines due during the first year of life, timeliness (primary outcome) and coverage (secondary outcome) will be observed for 1200 children (600 intervention children and 600 non-intervention children). Study logs, fidelity checklists, quantitative surveys, vaccination records, and qualitative interviews with mothers and key informants will be used to inform the five constructs of the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework. Results will be used to develop an implementation blueprint that can guide future adaptations, sustainability, and scale-up of Chanjo Kwa Wakati. Hypothesis: The hypothesis is that Chanjo Kwa Wakati is effective for increasing the timeliness of childhood vaccinations due by age 1 year compared to the standard of care. Expected impact: This study will address the lack of rigorous evidence on the effectiveness of an community-based digital health intervention for promoting vaccination coverage and timeliness among children from sub-Saharan Africa, and identify implementation strategies to facilitate the deployment of integrated vaccination interventions in low- and middle-income country settings.
This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of strengthened anticipatory guidance (AG) used in MOH Malaysia Infant Oral Healthcare Programme in preventing early childhood caries (ECC) lesions and improving caries risk of infants in Negeri Sembilan and their primary caregiver's knowledge and practice on infant oral healthcare
This is an educational research study involving novice cardiac device implanters willing to further enhance their device implant skills through optional simulation-based training. The goal is to prospectively compare the effect of two different simulation-based training approaches on the quality of operators' implant performance in a simulated environment. The hypothesis is that a novel simulation training curriculum requiring trainees to demonstrate predefined proficiency benchmarks to advance (proficiency-based progression method) would generate superior performances compared to a traditional simulation training curriculum without proficiency requirements but identical content/tools. At the end of the instruction each trainee will perform a final simulated implant procedure which will be (anonymously) video-recorded and consequently scored by independent reviewers using previously validated intraoperative performance metrics. The effect of the two training approaches will be evaluated and performances compared by group for each metric independently.
The goal of this cohort study is to investigate the underlying risk factors to develop metabolic syndrome (MetS) during pregnancy, and the associations of MetS and its indicators with birth outcomes in southwest Ethiopia. The study population consists of low-risk pregnant ladies in their first antenatal care visit (ANC), from Jimma Medical center. The main question[s] it aims to answer are: i) How do MetS components progress during pregnancy, and what are the underlying risk factors? ii) What is the association between MetS components during early- and late pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes? iii) What is the knowledge, attitude and practices of women toward dietary habits, food taboos, and cultural beliefs during pregnancy? The study population consists of low-risk pregnant ladies in their first trimester (<15 weeks of pregnancy) in their first antenatal care visit (ANC) who will be followed up until one-month postpartum. Enrolled women will be assessed four times: at enrolment ≤15 weeks of pregnancy, mid-pregnancy (at 24 weeks), and late pregnancy (at 36 weeks), and within two weeks post-partum for: 1. Sociodemographic data 2. Dietary intake 3. Biochemical analyses 4. Maternal anthropometry: 5. Body composition in a subsample. 6. Knowledge, attitudes and practices of dietary practices during pregnancy 7. Pregnancy and birth outcomes: During the final visit, new born babies will be assessed for Apgar score, weight, length, and head circumference. The mother will be examined for general health and mode of delivery.
How health-related information is communicated affects what is understood and might influence how people make decisions and how confident they feel in participating in clinical shared decision-making. The CICERO trial will compare three different communication tools providing information on fictional interventions for a common medical problem (i.e. social anxiety disorder) both in terms of how well interventions work (benefit) and also possible harms associated (risk). The three communication tools ("Summary of Findings table", "Kilim plot", and "Vitruvian plot") differ in how they present information: exclusively written, primarily written and partially graphical, or mixed written and visual. Each participant will be asked to go through one clinical scenario. The investigators will ask participants to familiarise themselves with the tool they have been allocated to (either a plot or a table) and then answer some validated questionnaires to measure how useful and efficient the communication strategy was. The entire study occurs online in a single study session (about 20 minutes). The results of the CICERO trial will inform how to communicate research findings to the general population, facilitating their implementation in clinical shared decision-making.
Background Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease caused by four distinct but closely related dengue virus (DENV). The incidence of dengue has grown dramatically worldwide in recent decades, with cases reported to WHO increased from 505,430 cases in 2000 to 5.2 million in 2019. The total number of dengue cases in Malaysia has increased from merely 6,543 cases in the year 1995 to 130,101 cases in the year 2019. Knowledge, attitude and practice remain the most effective driving tool against dengue prevention and control and it becomes very necessary to plan an integrated module for the primary prevention of dengue infection especially among school children. Aims The present study intends to develop, implement and evaluate the effectiveness of theory-based integrated dengue education module in improving the knowledge, attitude, practice, environmental cleanliness index, and dengue index among school children in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur. Methods This study is a single-blinded, cluster randomized controlled trial study, expected to be conducted from 1st June 2023 to 31st May 2025 among 20 primary dan 20 secondary schools in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur. The respondents will be allocated into intervention and control groups randomly based on selected clusters to avoid contamination. The intervention group will receive IDEM, while the control group will receive standard education. The outcome will be measured using validated, self-administered questionnaires at four time points: baseline (T0), Immediately (T1), one month (T2), and three months (T3) post-intervention to measure the effectiveness of the intervention module. The data will be analysed using IBM Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 28 involving descriptive and inferential statistics. The Generalized Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) will be used to test the main effect and interaction between and within the intervention and control groups over time at T0, T1, T2 and T3. This study will use a significance level with a p-value of 0.05 and a confidence interval of 95% for hypothesis testing